Ten by John Pritchard

Author:John Pritchard
Format: epub
Publisher: SPCK

9 Jesus Christ relates to the Father and the Holy Spirit in the Trinity

You’d probably rather not go into this in detail. It took the early Church many centuries and many furious arguments to end up with the conviction that God is three ‘persons’ in one God, ‘the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal’. For a wonderfully entertaining (and accurate) statement of Trinitarian belief, look up the Athanasian Creed on Wikipedia. If you thought string theory was complex … However, the essence of the Trinity is that the three ‘persons’ are a community of mutual love and encouragement, expressing the dynamic joy at the heart of God. Christians don’t believe in three Gods, nor that any one person of the Trinity is superior to any other. Rather, the Trinity is a way of doing justice to the experience of Christians that they encounter God in different ways – in the creative love of the Father, the saving friendship of the Son, and the sustaining energy of the Spirit. Perhaps the best way of understanding what Christians believe on this is to spend time before Rublev’s famous icon of the Trinity. And then to pray.

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